Animal Life and the Moving Image
Animal Life and the Moving Image

Author: Michael Lawrence

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-07-25

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1838714383

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From the proto-cinematic sequencing of animal motion in the nineteenth century to the ubiquity of animal videos online, the histories of animal life and the moving image are enigmatically interlocked. Animal Life and the Moving Image is the first collection of essays to offer a sustained focus on the relations between screen cultures and non-human animals. The volume brings together some of the most important and influential writers working on the non-human animal's significance for cultures and theories of the moving image. It offers innovative analyses of the representation of animals across a wide range of documentary, fiction, mainstream and avant-garde practices, from early cinema to contemporary user-generated media. Individual chapters consider King Kong, The Birds, The Misfits, The Cove, Grizzly Man and Microcosmos, the work of Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Bresson, Malcolm Le Grice, Peter Greenaway, Carolee Schneemann and Isabella Rossellini, and YouTube stars Christian the lion and Maru the cat.

The Paris Zone
The Paris Zone

Author: James Cannon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-24

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 131702172X

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Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French cities. However, it once referred to a more circumscribed space: the zone non aedificandi (non-building zone) which encircled Paris from the 1840s to the 1940s. This unusual territory, although marginal in a social and geographical sense, came to occupy a central place in Parisian culture. Previous studies have focused on its urban and social history, or on particular ways in which it was represented during particular periods. By bringing together and analysing a wider range of sources from the duration of the zone’s existence, this study offers a rich and nuanced account of how the area was perceived and used by successive generations of Parisian novelists (including Zola and Flaubert), poets, songwriters, artists, photographers, film-makers, politicians and town-planners. More generally, it aims to raise awareness of a neglected aspect of Parisian cultural history while pointing to links between current and past perceptions of the city’s periphery.

Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg
Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg

Author: Doug Fullington

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-03-26

Total Pages: 889

ISBN-13: 0190944501

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This book offers something entirely new: detailed scene-by-scene descriptions of the action and dancing of Giselle, Paquita, Le Corsaire, La Bayadère, and Raymonda, bringing the reader far closer to what the audience saw when the curtain went up on these five classic story ballets than has heretofore been possible. Drawing on archival documents, the authors show that these ballets were like today's pop entertainment: funnier, more violent, more spectacular, and with female characters far stronger than one might expect. This rigorously researched book fills huge gaps in dance history and is bound to be of interest to practitioners, scholars, and devotees of ballet and the arts.

Le Tumulte Noir
Le Tumulte Noir

Author: Jody Blake

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780271017532

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Jody Blake demonstrates in this book that although the impact of African-American music and dance in France was constant from 1900 to 1930, it was not unchanging. This was due in part to the stylistic development and diversity of African-American music and dance, from the prewar cakewalk and ragtime to the postwar Charleston and jazz. Successive groups of modernists, beginning with the Matisse and Picasso circle in the 1900s and concluding with the Surrealists and Purists in the 1920s, constructed different versions of la musique and la danse negre. Manifested in creative and critical works, these responses to African-American music and dance reflected the modernists' varying artistic agendas and historical climates.

Cinema's Conversion to Sound
Cinema's Conversion to Sound

Author: Charles O’Brien

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2005-01-18

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780253217202

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A groundbreaking look at the transition to sound in the French Cinema.

Oedipus at Thebes
Oedipus at Thebes

Author: Bernard Knox

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780300074239

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Examines the way in which Sophocles' play "Oedipus Tyrannus" and its hero, Oedipus, King of Thebes, were probably received in their own time and place, and relates this to twentieth-century receptions and interpretations, including those of Sigmund Freud.

French National Cinema
French National Cinema

Author: Susan Hayward

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0415307821

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This revised and updated edition of a successful and established text provides a much-needed historical overview of French cinema from its roots through to the political and social developments in the 1990s and beyond.

Before We Visit the Goddess
Before We Visit the Goddess

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-04-25

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1476792011

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"A new novel from the author of Oleander Girl, a novel in stories, built around crucial moments in the lives of 3 generations of women in an Indian/Indian-American Family"--

Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature
Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature

Author: Caroline Potter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1317141792

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Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a quirky, innovative and enigmatic composer whose impact has spread far beyond the musical world. As an artist active in several spheres - from cabaret to religion, from calligraphy to poetry and playwriting - and collaborator with some of the leading avant-garde figures of the day, including Cocteau, Picasso, Diaghilev and René Clair, he was one of few genuinely cross-disciplinary composers. His artistic activity, during a tumultuous time in the Parisian art world, situates him in an especially exciting period, and his friendships with Debussy, Stravinsky and others place him at the centre of French musical life. He was a unique figure whose art is immediately recognisable, whatever the medium he employed. Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature explores many aspects of Satie's creativity to give a full picture of this most multifaceted of composers. The focus is on Satie's philosophy and psychology revealed through his music; Satie's interest in and participation in artistic media other than music, and Satie's collaborations with other artists. This book is therefore essential reading for anyone interested in the French musical and cultural scene of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.